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Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Both indicative and counterfactual conditionals are known to be licensing contexts for negative polarity items (NPIs). However, a recent theoretical account suggests that the licensing of attenuating NPIs like English all that in the conditional ...
Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu
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Exploring Pragmatic Factors on the Logical Relationships of Conditional Reasoning: A Study of Counterfactual and Hypothetical Conditionals [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPrevious theories have established the mental model activation of processing different types of conditionals, stating that counterfactual conditionals expressing events that contradict known facts (e.g., “If it had rained, then they would not go to the ...
Lingda Kong, Yanting Sun, Xiaoming Jiang
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Deduction with uncertain conditionals (revised & simplified, with examples) [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Section 1 of this paper provides an introduction to this new “algebra of conditionals”, addresses various plausibility tests for such an algebra, provides a Venn diagram disproving a supposed counter-example, and answers various other objections raised ...
Philip G. Calabrese
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Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Missing-link conditionals like “If bats have wings, Paris is in France” are generally felt to be unacceptable even though both clauses are true. According to the Hypothetical Inferential Theory, this is explained by a conventional requirement of an ...
Maxime Bourlier +5 more
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The conditional mood in Ghomálaʼ
Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 This paper sets out to examine the conditional mood in Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in the Western Region of Cameroon. This article shows that the elements used to build conditionals can play other roles in the language; they can play ...
Gaston Bessala, Francine Moguo
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Restriction without Quantification: Embedding and Probability for Indicative Conditionals
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Many modern theories of indicative conditionals treat them as restricted epistemic necessity modals. This view, however, faces two problems. First, indicative conditionals do not behave like necessity modals in embedded contexts, e.g., under ‘might’ and ‘
Ivano Ciardelli
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The ‘Drama-Queen’ and Other Conditionals in Real Discourse
Linguaculture, 2018 The formal approach to conditionals, treating them in a decontextualized manner, has been the most developed. The present paper shows how problematic this approach can be when conditionals are studied in context.
Nadina Cehan
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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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Sprechaktbedingungen und bedingte Sprechakte: Pragmatische Konditionalsätze im Deutschen
Linguistik Online, 2000 This paper deals with conditional sentences which are not related to the propositional content of the sentence but rather to various aspects of the utterance that is performed. The main goal is to develop a typology of the functions of these conditionals.
Karin Pittner
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Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2020 By investigating Dutch children’s interpretation habitual and deontic conditionals, this paper explores their mapping of the concepts of hypotheticality and conditionality into a corresponding linguistic form of IF-conditionals.
Jing Lin
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